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That's really what sf is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. science fiction is the very literature of change. in fact, it is the only such literature we have.
-Frederik Pohl
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That's Really What Sf Is All About,

Frederik Pohl
That's really what sf is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. science fiction is the very literature of change. in fact, it is the only such literature we have.
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It had also been my belief since i started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. when science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. but it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when i started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
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My old english buddy, john rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
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Science fiction, as i mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. we haven't been there yet. we haven't discovered that yet. science fiction hasn't happened.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though i have greatly enjoyed some of the work of ursula leguin. i haven't read much science fiction so i don't know other sci-fi authors.
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The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. therefore jules verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. it would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.
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This fact was something i also learned from this first novel that i needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time i needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. if the experience is very close, i feel inhibited. i have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. if the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, i need a distance, a distance in time and in space.
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